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Decapitate   /dikˈæpətˌeɪt/   Listen
Decapitate

verb
(past & past part. decapitated; pres. part. decapitating)
1.
Cut the head of.  Synonyms: behead, decollate.





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"Decapitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... mission with such a bad grace, that Ann and Ea were incensed against his mistress, and commissioned Nergal to descend and chastise her; he went, and finding the gates of hell open, dragged the queen by her hair from the throne, and was about to decapitate her, but she mollified him by her prayers, and saved her life by becoming his wife. The nature of Nergal fitted him well to play the part of a prince of the departed: for he was the destroying sun ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) • G. Maspero
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... pattern of his own, with crescent-shaped heads set on the shaft with the two horns of the crescent pointing forward, the inner curve sharpened to a razor edge. Shooting at an ostrich racing at top speed he never failed to decapitate it with one shot, invariably severing its neck about ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
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Words linked to "Decapitate" :   kill, guillotine


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